Verdad Magazine Volume 8
Spring 2010, Volume 8
Poetry by Bob Zappacosta
Channel 27
The fat dog smiles
as a rabbit with a broken leg
comes into his sight.
The fat dog smiles
knowing
at the end of the day
he’ll only be getting
fatter.
Smell the
heat of summer.
It’s in the eyes of
everyone
strolling down
Main Street past the
candlepin
bowling alley
to the other side
of paradise.
And all along
the way
the shopkeepers
are merchandising
their wares.
An ice cream
cone
screams
Lick me!
dripping
strawberry, vanilla.
Big tollhouse
cookies
speak
in a more subtle way
next to a pitcher of
ice cold lemonade.
These are
the dog-days
of summer.
Fill your pockets
for winter
will surely
come.
BIO: Bob Zappacosta's poems have been published by Bowersock Gallery, Pasco Arts Council, PEARL, Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, and his poetic short film "Jack Buchanan—rough cut, a work in progress" was recently shown at Progress Energy Art Gallery